More important, Western leaders must comprehend the danger of picking sides.

MOSCOW Western leaders and observers persistently repeat, like a mantra, that Russia is weak.

Not surprisingly, after the attacks Western leaders reaffirmed the urgency of bringing Turkey into the European fold.

Western leaders repeatedly declare that no option is off the table to stem Iran s nuclear ambitions.

Western values may be under assault, but Western goods are welcome.

Western leaders must pressure the government of Azerbaijan to start respecting the international conventions and agreements it has signed.

For oppositions, this is not a road without risks, but it is one worth taking. Western political leaders grappling with this part of the world should also learn not to settle for second best.

Western leaders are deceiving themselves if they think that cajoling and reasoning with Putin, or offering token signs of respect, can break that mindset.

Western political leaders grappling with this part of the world should also learn not to settle for second best.

Western drug addicts are putting more money into Afghanistan s economy than Western governments.

West Gate of Peking University.

Peking University's West Gate.

Putin then proceeded to restore authoritarian rule in Russia. Today, Western leaders may well be about to repeat the same mistake with Dmitry Medvedev.

Putin then proceeded to restore authoritarian rule in Russia. Today, Western leaders may well be about to repeat the same mistake with Dmitry Medvedev.

If Putin's dangerous brinkmanship is to be stopped, Western leaders will need to find a way to initiate strategic cooperation with Russia.

Do they represent Western values?

They should watch Western movies less.

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Instead, Western leaders need to focus on fixing their state budgets in order to salvage what they can.

Networked Leaders

But Western sanctions have not worked, either.

The Western democracies will survive with only modest changes.

They are much better than Western baths.

While Western leaders talked about a new emphasis on growth and employment, they offered no concrete policies backing these aspirations.

Some Western diplomats recognize the Supreme Leader s role.

And what do you mean with Western world? I said.

The Western Balkans, however, is a different story.

Western economists typically favor gradual tax increases

Western reporters joined the party last summer.

To succeed, Western leaders must reframe their approach to the Syrian endgame, rejecting the assumptions that have shaped their policies since the beginning of the crisis.

Knowing the amount of wealth stolen and squandered by Obasanjo's predecessors, such as General Sani Abacha, and by the Suharto kleptocracy in Indonesia, pleas for such relief may not be welcomed easily.

Yet Western leaders must recognize that if these states fall apart, their debts will never be paid and, inevitably, creditor countries will face vast additional costs.

It would be ironic if China s Communist leaders turned out to have a better understanding of capitalism s reflexive interactions among finance, the real economy, and government than Western devotees of free markets.

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The EU s Small Leaders

Western think tanks such as the right wing Gatestone Institute believe that Kashmir should be part of the West s discourse on Islamic terrorism.

Western conservatives are no less prone to creative destruction than Western liberals conservatives, indeed, are well known for inventing traditions. Take the 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who invented most of the supposedly ancient traditions around the British monarchy.

Into this fray stepped the US and its Western allies.

So, what should Western central banks do?

That is a promise that Western countries will be unable to provide.

So CharlieHebdo has now plagued the western media by mocking Aylan.

As in the Balkans a generation ago, when Western leaders moved to end the bloodiest European conflict since World War II, the French are ready to send planes and pilots to Syria.

Europe s leaders know this.

Regional leaders understand this.